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HASKEL SILVERMAN, OF NEW YORK, N. Y.

SKIRT.

SPECIFICATION forming part of Letters Patent No. 599,919, dated March 1,1898.

Application filed November 22, 1897- Serial No. 659,501. (No model.)

York city, State of New York, have invented new and useful Improvementsin Skirts, of which the following is a specification.

My invention relates generally to improvements in skirts, but moreparticularly to the form and finish of the plackets thereof.

My invention is specially applicable to garments made of double-facedmaterial and well known as reversible skirts,either side of which maybeworn outward.

The novelty of the invention lies in the form and arrangement of thepocket and placketfly, together with various minor features hereinafterto be fully described.

The accompanying drawings illustrate on embodiment of my invention.

Figure 1 is a View in perspective of a skirt of the class above referredto. Fig. 2 is a view of the portion of the same containing one of theplackets, which latter is shown open to more clearly illustrate thepocket, &c. Fig. 3 is a similar view showing the pocket adjusted to theopposite side of the skirt. Fig. 4 is a sectional diagram. Fig. 5 is alike view showing the manner of arranging the pocket and fly to rendereach side of the skirt presentable, and Fig. 6 is a view incross-section of the pocket.

Similar numerals represent like parts.

1 represents a skirt of generally-adopted pattern and style designed toform part of either a bicycle or golf skirt, the same being made ofeither two thicknesses of different material or a single thickness ofdouble-faced material to enable either side to be worn outward. Asshown, the skirt is provided, though not necessarily, with duplicateplackets 2 of suitable length and separated, as may be found desirable.

3 represents a pocket which is formed of three pieces of material 4 5 6,joined at the edges by a line of stitching 7, extending from points 8 to9 and providing duplicate compartments 10 11, entrance to which isfacilitated by cutting away the pieces 5 6 to the depth of the placketin the manner shown. The pocket is sewed to one edge of the slit orplacket, as indicated by the stitching 12, extending from points 13 to14, and may be readily adjusted from one side of the skirt to the other,(see Figs. 2 and 3,) and upon being so placed will always present acompartment convenient for use. v

A double fly 15 is attached centrally throughout its length, as at 16,to the opposite edge of the slit or placket, so as to be readily turnedabout such edge and overlap either side or face of the adjoining portionof the skirt, thereby covering the opening in a manner to give style andfinish to the garment, the outer portion of the fly being detachablyheld in position by suitable fastenings 17, which are preferablyconcealed and of the form shown. The inner half of the fly or thatportion lying within the skirt is adapted to cooperate in forming acontinuation of the part 5 of the pocket by being detachably join edtothe same through the fastenings 18, (see Figs. 2 and 3,) thusefiectively insuring against articles intended for the pocket beingdropped by mistake inside the skirt and lost.

As the readjustment and manner of securing the pocket and fly uponturning the opposite side of skirt outward is clearly illustrated inFigs. 4 and 5 a detailed description is not thought necessary. Itsufflces to say that after the pocket is properly adjusted thearrangement is directly the reverse of that above described. To gainaccess to the pocket, the fastenings upon the outer half of the fly aredisengaged and entrance to the compartment is disclosed.

The band 19 conforms to the contour of the upper edge of the skirt andfly and is provided with requisite fastenings 20.

Having therefore described my invention, what I claim is 1. A reversibleskirt provided with a placket, a pocket accessible from the placket anda flap secured along its central line to one edge of the placket, bothouter walls of the and both edges of the flap being provided withplacket and both edges of the flap being provided with complementalfasteners.

2. A reversible skirt provided with a placket, a pocket having twocompartments accessible from the placket and a double flap secured alongits central line to one edge of the placket, both outer walls of theplacket complemental fasteners. 10

In testimony whereof I affix my signature in the presence of twowitnesses.

HASKEL SILVERMAN. Witnesses:

ISRAEL A. GOLDSTEIN, J. E. PEARSON.

